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Nobody could put his finger on a dollar of it, but ever since the late Huey P. Long rose to power there has been persistent talk of the rich graft which his Louisiana political machine was supposed to be pocketing. Meantime the Federal Government has harried individual Longsters with one of the most spirited income tax investigations on record. Result was indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went...
...obviously there will have to be an offensive punch added to the Varsity's powers if it is to win any games this year. Therein lies the great question which the West Point game will settle; has Harlow been able to graft a potent attack onto an admittedly good defensive team...
...Revolution is scarcely yet upon the home horizon. . . . But Japan has fallen prey to the graft, corruption and slackness that have undermined so many empires in the past...
...reported that CWA funds were being diverted to the purchase of refrigerator parts, the repair of Government House radios, the hiring of taxicabs for parades. At once Attorney Baer set out to investigate the administration of public funds in the Islands. He turned up screaming with 101 charges of graft, waste and corruption. A refrigerator salesman mysteriously committed suicide but, sifted by two Interior Department investigators, Attorney Baer's 101 charges simmered down to the case of one poor quadroon named Mclntosh who had innocently appropriated $38.40 worth of government cement and lumber in exchange for various odd jobs...
Unlike Britain, France, Italy, Germany and many another foreign nation, the U. S. has no direct merchant marine subsidy, aids its shipping men instead with mail contracts and construction loans. Last week, hot on the heels of charges of graft and corruption in the Commerce Department (see p. 9), the Senate committee investigating ocean mail contracts shocked Washington with sizzling charges that U. S. shipping men have fattened fabulously on the public purse...